Summary
Donald Trump will not attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. soldiers killed during a training exercise in Lithuania.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will represent the administration at Dover Air Force Base. Critics noted Trump’s rare attendance at such ceremonies, citing just four appearances during his first term.
The soldiers’ remains were found in a peat bog after a March 25 accident.
Trump is instead scheduled to attend a dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Lithuania’s president honored the fallen at a repatriation ceremony, drawing contrast with Trump’s absence.
Fox News would’ve blamed Biden for the soldiers deaths and Biden would’ve been attending the transfer and taking all kinds of shitty media coverage over it. Instead, Trump goes golfing and no one cares.
As expected from someone who openly calls fallen members of the military “losers”.
Remember this, American forces, when he sends you to war with your long-term allies.
Of course Cheeto won’t attend the funeral of a bunch of losers. He likes soldiers, not dead losers, rite?
Nothing more patriotic than a fat orange Russian muppet playing golf at a resort that tax payers now pay for to protect him while he gives the middle finger to the U.S. military. Truly a gift to humanity is what this dumb fucking clown is.
Nothing more American than LARPing as a patriot while selfishly screwing your fellow countrymen.
He needs to be put in the ground.
I know a peat bog he could take a ride at.
Not all of him. I would personally like to see his head sealed in lucite and mounted on a pike on the west lawn.
I like it.
And his toupee thrown into a volcano in new zealand.
… and in this day in age … nothing more American than in having Americans put up with it all
If any previous American president had done this, it would have been headline news for months … for this administration it’s completely normalized … it doesn’t show bad the government is … it shows how dumbed down the country has become.
Actually, I think it shows how susceptible people are to what media tells them. The word is getting out to resist and organize. Traditional media doesn’t have full control, but it is working to slow the reaction down.
Furthermore, people have a much tighter leash to their corporate overlords/sponsors, they have to be strategic about which protest (if they even have the energy).
So yeah, it’s dumb and circumstances. But we’ve been been engineered down this path for the past few decades, it’s coming for you too.
Fuck capitalism.
American citizens are not putting up with it all. There are massive protests in every city in America every weekend.
The problem is the the media is barely covering it at all, so people keep saying that Americans arent doing anything about it.
By next summer, every weekend will see MULTIPLE simultaneous major demonstrations in every major city across America, protesting multiple issues. That’s when HitlerPig will turn the military and law enforcemnt against the protesters in a Tiananmen-style response that will allow him to impose Martial Law and cancel the mid-term elections, and preserve his Congressional majorities.
Unfortunately that’s exactly how I see it too. I’m lucky I’m getting old, I fear massively for the next generation.
“It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.” – prez Obama
Those dead imperialists can rot in hell
“the most exploited classes can rot in hell for taking an act of desperation in the hopes of surviving their contract period and getting any chance at a living wage and an education”
fuck off with your bullshit. this mentality doesn’t help anyone and isn’t any different from right wing virtue signaling
I have no money so I just have no other option than to join this huge terrorist organisation and go kill or bomb whoever they tell me to.
Maybe there’s some scumbags in Yemen who support Palestine, I’ll just press this button and kill a few dozen and their entire families.
I’m a hero now! So much better than lowering myself and working at Mc Donalds.
Fuck off with your bullshit whitewashing.If i kill my elderly neighbor so i can steal and pawn everything they own my poverty is an explanation not an excuse for my actions. My actions don’t suddenly become acceptable because I benefited from them.
By dead imperialists, are you referring to the soldiers?
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And yet i don’t hear enough of them even talking about it. They aren’t seeing this. It’s just not making it into their info sphere or whatever cool black mirror name we gonna shoot for next.
We talk about it. A lot. At least my division and command does, both enlisted and officers. There were vets on April 5th that talked about it too, on the bullhorn.
It’s because they don’t want to hear it.
I guess the only reason this is newsworthy is because we need the US military to turn against their commander and chief when he tries to hold the office indefinitely.
Kinda fucked the author didn’t say this in the “Why It Matters” section
10 years ago if you made this guy a villain in a movie it would be so overdone you’d lose suspension of disbelief.
You know hour I know you’re right? Because they did. Multiple old film villains were based on him. Biff, Clamp, Gecko, etc.
Some More News did like a 3 hour video about this a few years back. Worth watching.
Yeah I was trying to remember more examples they gave but it’s been a while
“Those suckers are less important than my grifting.” - Donald “Fuck the Troops” Trump
“I like soldiers who don’t have training accidents.”
Not even grifting. He’s fucking golfing.
Edit: immediately after typing that I remembered his golfing is a fucking grift.
Also what he said during a photo-op at the tomb of the unknown soldier
he barged into the cemetry and got a photo op, and the family just couldnt stop cheering him on, thats the most unbelievable part. while ignoring another soldier that was interred there,
I expect nothing else from ol’ Cheeto Face. He thought John McCain was a loser for getting shot down over Vietnam and being held as a POW, so I can only imagine what he would think of a bunch of guys drowning in a bog.
Bitch’s bone spurs must act up anytime someone talks about actual soldiers and not Meal Team Six
No soldier with any sense of awareness to the fact that Donald Trump is an enemy to the US (which admittedly is depressingly few), would want him there anyway.
Who in Their RIGHT MIND would Honor such LOSERS and SUCKERS? And I DONT feel BAD Saying that Because
Losers and SuckersVeterans voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump!I don’t know why people down vote you… I guess they don’t understand the reference ^^
The end of the American Century was when this asshole didn’t go to the memorial for the centenary of the end of WWI. Because it was raining.
The end of the American century was when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and it didn’t matter. Or mocking a disabled guy, and that didn’t matter. Or, long before that, talking about how he wants to fuck his daughter and that didn’t matter. Or…
His make-up might run. Think of the bronzer!
Imagine how angry gop would be if the democrats would do this…
And they will happily vote for him again.
